In the United States, businessmen such as ____________ financed research on how to prevent the reproduction of genetically “inferior” races.
a. Thomas Edison.
b. Henry Ford.
c. Hiram Maxim.
d. J.P. Morgan.
b. Henry Ford.
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The California Gold Rush had all of the following consequences EXCEPT
A) propelling the growth of California's non-Indian population from around 7,000 in 1845 to almost 93,000 in the first U.S. census of 1850. B) the development and use of multiple overland and sea travel routes utilizing ships, pack mules, ox-drawn wagons, and horses from prospective Californians traveling from Mexico, South America, Hawaii, China, the eastern United States, and Europe. C) the creation of very harsh gold camps where violence, intimidation, and racial discrimination against the Chinese was commonplace. D) improved health and quality of life and an increased population for the Indian population of California.
To prevent local factional control of papal elections, Pope __________ established the College of Cardinals.
A. Leo IX B. Stephen IX C. Otto I D. Nicholas II
All of the following are true about working conditions in the early 1900s EXCEPT
a. industrialists refused to resort to the subdivision of labor. b. America consistently led the world in industrial accidents and deaths on the job. c. wages were so low that most industrial workers made less than a living wage. d. workers were plagued by unsanitary, dangerous working conditions.
The Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
(A) Boosted Confederate morale (B) Nearly convinced France to extend diplomatic recognition to the South (C) Were the major turning point in the war (D) Justified Peace Democrats’ criticism of Lincoln and the war